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TsukiPro TV Anime Reveals Opening Clip, Visuals, October 4 Premiere

The official website for the television anime TsukiPro the Animation revealed new visuals and the anime's October 4 premiere on Sunday. In addition, it is streaming a clip from the anime's opening sequence, which features the in-story band Soara.

The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX on October 4. It will also premiere on Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, TV Aichi, BS11, and AT-X, and will stream on d Anime Store (Docomo Anime Store) and Animate Channel. The anime's first episode will have an advance screening event at Animate's Ikebukuro store in Tokyo on September 30.

In addition, Tokyo MX will air a pre-broadcast September 27 special with the production staff and a cast member from each of the anime's four idol units: Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Shun'ichi Toki, Takuya Eguchi, and Kōtarō Nishiyama. The half-hour special will also stream on d Anime Store and Animate Channel.

The two new visuals show the in-story bands Soara and Growth.

Keitaro Motonaga (Digimon Adventure tri., Date A Live director) is serving as chief director, and Juria Matsumura (Digimon Adventure tri. unit director) is directing the anime at PRA (Bikini Warriors). Reiko Yoshida (Yowamushi Pedal, K-ON!) is handling series composition, and Mariko Oka (First Love Monster, Hetalia The World Twinkle) is adapting the character designs for animation. AZ Creative is producing the anime.

The music anime follows the daily lives and associated drama of four of TsukiPro's groups — SOARA, Growth, SolidS, and Quell.

The cast is as follows:

Soara

• Chiharu Sawashiro as Nozomu Nanase
• Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Sora Ohara
• Makoto Furukawa as Soshi Kagurazaka
• Taishi Murata as Ren Munakata
• Yūki Ono as Morihito Arihara

Growth

• Junta Terashima as Mamoru Fujimura
• Shun'ichi Toki as Koki Eto
• Yoshitaka Yamaya as Kensuke Yaegashi
• Daiki Yamashita as Ryota Sakuraba

SolidS

• Yuichiro Umehara as Dai Murase
• Sōma Saitō as Tsubasa Okui
• Takuya Eguchi as Shiki Takamura
• Natsuki Hanae as Rikka Sera

Quell

• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Shu Izumi
• Kōtarō Nishiyama as Eichi Horimiya
• Shugo Nakamura as Issei Kuga
• Sho Nogami as Ichiru Kuga

Fujiwara (MOVIC) is credited with the original story, as well as the original story concepts with Ryōko Seki. The original character designers are Yū Satsuki (SQ Series or SolidS and Quell) and Tohiro Shijima (Alive Series or Soara and Growth). Akira Takizawa and Takeshi Hama contributed on the music.

SolidS is performing the theme song "Burny!!!," Soara is performing "Aliel," Quell is performing "Because you are," and Growth is performing "Mahō no Kizuna" (Magic Bond).

Source: Animate Times